Code 58 is now The Good Guys

Dallas-shot TV show Code 58, which was formerly known as Jack and Dan, is now known as The Good Guys. Got that straight?

Extras casting for 'Chase,' 'Code 58'

Just because everyone seems to want to know, here's the extras casting info for the two television shows shooting in Dallas:

Chase

Non-speaking talent needed for new Jerry Bruckheimer pilot that will begin filming the first part of March and will continue filming until the end of the month. The Extras Casting Department will be casting all non-speaking talent of all ages and diversified ethnicity for stand-ins, photo doubles, regular background and action extras. Please email headshot or a recent photo to cache.casting@gmail.com.

On opening page of email please have the following information:

1. Name
2. All contact info
3. Availability
4. Automobile type (ie: color/year/model)
5. Are you a Texas Resident (Texas residency required)
6. Student or home school minor
7. Wardrobe sizes Men - height - weight - waist-inseam-jacket-shirt(sleeve/neck) shoe and hat Women - height -weight-dress-blouse-slacks-jeans-bust-waist-hips-shoe-hat

Make sure the above info is on opening page of email or the attachments will not be opened and saved on file. If you or a family member emailed or mailed a headshot previously for “The Deep End” please do not resubmit. Do not submit a photo if you want a speaking part we only cast non-speaking roles. Pay will be 64/8 for extras and 120/12 for stand-ins.

Code 58 (formerly Jack And Dan)

We will soon be casting Paid EXTRAS for the FOX television series “Code 58” starring Colin Hanks to be filmed in the DALLAS, TX area starting on 1/26/10 for approximately 13 episodes.

We will be looking for ALL types, ALL ages of local Dallas/Fort Worth area talent to work on this project. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!!!

**If you are already registered with us (On Location Casting) - please DO NOT fill out another profile, you will automatically be considered for this project! However, please be sure that your OLC profile and contact information is up to date.

Some specific types of Extras we will need include:
-Uniform Police Officers: male and female, clean cut, athletic, prefer previous law enforcement experience
-CSI Agents: male and female, clean cut, professional types
-Detectives: male and female, professional types with suits
-Civilian Office Workers: secretarial types with business attire
-Airline Pilots
-Flight Attendants
-Extras with cars that are NOT red, white or black (please put your car year, make, model & color in your talent profile under special skills)
-PERUVIAN Men, Women and Children
-Bikers with tattooes and motorcycles
-Exotic Dancers/Strippers/Burlesque Dancers
-Drug Dealer and Criminal types
-Businessmen with suits
-Seedy Character types (extreme interesting character faces, all ages)
-"smoking hot” gorgeous MODELS
-Homeless types
-African American Men and Women
-Asian Men and Women
-EXPERIENCED Standins & Photos Doubles for several lead actors (please list Stand-in experience on online resume)
-Plus many other General Extra roles.

All Extra roles are PAID. NON-UNION Extras Rate of $64.00 for 8 hours ($8/hr) plus overtime. Stand-in rate is $120.00 for 12 hours ($10/hr) plus overtime.

In order to be considered for EXTRA work, you will need to visit our company website at http://www.onlocationcasting.net and complete a TALENT Application. Please make sure to upload 1-2 photos to your talent profile. It is FREE to be in our talent files. The optional upgrade offered to an Active Agency Pro account brings you many additional marketing benefits and website services, however please note that the optional upgrades are NOT REQUIRED in order to work on “Code 58” or any other OLC project. You are automatically ‘active’ in our talent database as soon as your account is approved.

*TEXAS Residents ONLY! We will NOT pay for your travel/accomodations to/in Dallas and you MUST have valid proof of Texas residency (Drivers License, Voter Registration Card or Full-time College ID Card)

If you have further questions - you can reach us via email at: onlocationcasting@yahoo.com

We will NOT be handling the principal (speaking role) casting for this project.

Fox to shoot 'Midland' TV pilot in Dallas

The Dallas Film Commission just leaked word that Fox TV pilot Midland will shoot in Dallas from March 16 to April 1. It's an odd oil biz/polygamy drama. Marc Webb, the guy directing the next Spider-man film, will direct the show's pilot as well from a script by The Beaver screenwriter Kyle Killen.

Dallas is on a roll with cop show Code 58 (formerly known as Jack and Dan) shooting currently in the Metroplex starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks' son). Plus, The Deep End, now airing on ABC, also recently shot in Dallas and is waiting for word of any additional episode orders.

Joe's Top 10 articles of 2009

As a free-lance writer I get to (mostly) pick and choose what I write about. The Texas film industry, literature and college football have been my specialties of late. Here are my picks of the best of what I wrote in 2009:

1. I spent a very long lunch at Threadgill's World Headquarters with Joe Lansdale for this in-depth piece in The Austin Chronicle.


2. I love the challenge of visiting a movie or television show set and conveying the experience to readers. My visit to the The Deep End set and chatting with Billy Zane for The Dallas Morning News is a case in point.


3. I turned my wife's high school homecoming into a tale a bit larger that included the young guy touted as the nation's best ball carrier (it's debatable) and a certain guy (Britt Daniel) from the band Spoon.


4. Tommy Warren used the skills he got designing prisons to create a film studio called Spiderwood out near Bastrop. He gave me a tour of the facility and of his life's journey for this Austin Chronicle article.


5. Just prior to when films are released, press people are herded one by one into a hotel room to interview the director and/or stars. I got to sit down and chat with Mike Judge about Extract and found him to be a pretty good interview and a very interesting person. The resulting article ran both in the San Antonio Express-News and The Houston Chronicle.


6. My favorite up-and-coming literary writer is Dan Chaon. I sent him a fan email after reading his short story "Big Me," so you can bet I jumped at the chance to interview him about his latest novel Await Your Reply for both The Austin Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.


7. While I'm no longer a regular film contributor for The Austin Chronicle, I have been writing a weekly blog for them about Colt McCoy, Coach Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns football team as it aims for a nation title. In this last installment, I talked about luck and the literature of football.


8. Larry Hagman and others were inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame to open the South By Southwest Film Festival in March. I don't do a lot of short-deadline journalism, but this piece was hammered out very quickly on the spot during the festivities for The Dallas Morning News.


9. I used to advise the student newspaper at St. Edward's University and did much of the programming for the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association's statewide conference in 2004, which we co-sponsored. I invited Clarence Swensen, one of the last surviving Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, to speak to students as part of the on-site feature-writing contest. He and his wife Myrna were great people and I even got a peek inside their Pflugerville home. Clarence died this year and I wrote a short piece honoring him in The Austin Chronicle.


10. I cut my teeth as a beat reporter covering mainly politics. I was known for being thorough and having a bit of a killer instinct about my various beats. I continue that as a Texas film industry columnist, a job that ended in July for The Austin Chronicle when they made some major cuts due to the tough economic times. I continue as the Shot in Texas film columnist for The Dallas Morning News. In the Morning News I broke the news both that The Deep End would shoot in North Texas and that the Coen brothers version of True Grit would film in Central Texas. Oh, and I was right there with the media pack with news of ABC's series Jack and Dan being set in and filming in Dallas. Here's the first scoop on True Grit.

TV shows jump start Dallas film scene

My latest SHOT IN TEXAS column from the Dallas Morning News talks about the shows The Deep End and Jack and Dan,which are waking up the North Texas film scene.

Coen brothers looking at Central Texas for 'True Grit'

That's really the big scoop in my latest SHOT IN TEXAS column in the Dallas Morning News. Also, more on the television shows lensing in Dallas nnd the Zapata, Texas, TV pilot that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are scouting, also in Central Texas.

More specifics not in the column: True Grit is looking at Granger, and Zapata is looking at Bastrop and the new Spiderwood Studios located near there.

Dallas gets Fox show "Jack and Dan"

Bradley Whitford


A shorter version of this appeared Friday in the Dallas Morning News:

Fox’s new series Jack and Dan will shoot 13 episodes in Dallas starting in January, adding to a growing television presence in North Texas.

The show features Colin Hanks (Tom's son) as a straight-laced detective who is paired with a drunken partner portrayed by Bradley Whitford (West Wing). Originally plans had the show set in Los Angeles, but the setting will now be Dallas, said Janis Burklund of the Dallas Film Commission.

That is in contrast to the ABC series The Deep End which is currently shooting six episodes—with a potential of more--in Dallas but is actually set in a Los Angeles law firm.

“It’s really going to show diversity of Dallas,” Burklund, said. “It’s not just going to be old stereotype of Dallas.”

Filming all around Dallas will continue for 96 days into June with a conservative estimate of $1 million in local spending for each of the episodes shot. Local production offices are expected to open immediately, and at least one local casting director has already been contacted by show producers.

Increased incentives for filming in Texas played a factor, but those almost didn’t keep Atlanta from luring the series, which Dallas has been courting in some form since June, Burklund said. The difference appears to be a combination of a strong crew and cast base, and heavy cooperation from city officials who offered whatever they could to sweeten the deal, including deals on hotels and longer-term housing.

“The city is using its full capacity to make this a very good thing,” said Bob Hudgins, head of the Texas Film Commission. “It’s pretty amazing to have two series shooting in Dallas and our friends at Friday Night Lights in Austin are chugging along.”

The state’s film incentives program offers rebates to filmmakers based either on total in-state spend or as a percentage of wages paid cast and crew who are Texas residents. Burklund said Fox is leaning toward the latter, which would require at least 70 percent of cast and crew by Texans.

Texas’ incentive is up to 15 percent of in-state spend or up to 25 percent of wages, with both figures increased slightly for filming in areas deemed “underutilized.” Georgia, in contrast, offers a 30 percent tax credit.

“The creatives were wanting to be here,” Burklund said. “Luckily we had them on our side fighting for it.”

The show was created by Matt Nix (Burn Notice), and the 13-episode order was made by Fox without a pilot episode being shot, an unusual show of confidence by the network.
Burklund announced the show Thursday amid a pile of boxes in the Dallas Film Commission offices. The commission is set to relocate today from the auspices of the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau to the city’s Office of Economic Development in City Hall.